Some of this comes down to intent though. Most of those extreme left wing terrorist attacks are the Animal Liberation front burning buildings being constructed on what they deem natural spaces and assaulting animal researchers. Even if terrorist attacks of that nature are much more numerous, they are going to cause less public paranoia than 9-11, or the 2002 sniper shootings, or the Boston bombing.
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Some of this comes down to intent though. Most of those extreme left wing terrorist attacks are the Animal Liberation front burning buildings being constructed on what they deem natural spaces and assaulting animal researchers. Even if terrorist attacks of that nature are much more numerous, they are going to cause less public paranoia than 9-11, or the 2002 sniper shootings, or the Boston bombing.
victreeb3l
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http://www.ibtimes.com/boston-marat...ngladeshi-man-beaten-bronx-being-arab-1201819
plenty of stuff has happened and continues to happen to brown people, muslims and non muslims. no one is playing the victim card but when there are idiots looking for any excuse to bully brown people then yes we have reasons to be concerned. just because you dont hear about it doesnt mean it doesnt happen
You didn't know Bosnia Herzegovina before?
Have you at least heard the name Milosevic?
Maninthemirror
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Terrorism is terrorism, killing is the crime, striking terror in an area or community or city etc is terrorism
I don't think most people in this country (and where i live) are looking to lynch Muslims. But there are some nuts here who thinks otherwise and are looking for payback.
I just don't get the timing and being insensitive argument. The possibility of something stupid happening is higher after the immediate aftermath of an incident like this when emotions are high.
Count Dookkake
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In broad terms, yes, terrorism is terrorism.
However, if you want to analyze the subject with any utility, whether for prevention or just ease of mind, it is probably a good idea to take into consideration scope and target.
I don't think this thread, or that article are in poor taste. They talk about the fear that comes with attacks like these, all because of an individuals race or religion.
Post 9/11, how many innocents died because of there appearence? How many temples were vandalized? How many kids were bullied? How about the six Sikh killed in the Wisconsin shooting awhile back? How about the muslim hate on twitter yesterday?
It's very sad that the childs life was lost in this, but its even more sad that these acts of hate will spread into more hate, which has been going on since 9/11.
Deified Data
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We're capable of having more than one concern at a time. Thanks for your concern, though.
Most of those terrorist attacks comprising that graph didn't lead to any deaths. Over half of them were property destruction. I agree that all terrorism is bad, but what do you think is going to instill more fear in the general populace: Terrorists targeting animal researchers and abortion clinics, or terrorists who are targeting the public in general?
Also, terrorism from a minority ethnicity/religious group are always going to be met with a different type of hostility than terrorism from within the majority group of any country. It's easy to classify a minority group as an opposing force separate from your own social sphere if you mostly interact with people of the majority. White religious people are going to think that an abortion clinic bombing was the actions of a mad man because they know dozens of white Christians who would never do such a thing. Their law abiding friends and family provide a normal to measure the actions of white Christian terrorists against. On the other hand, if they don't interact with Muslim communities in their day to day life, and the only things they are reading about Muslims are the goings on in the Middle East, and terrorist attacks, than that colors their perception of the entire group. It's wrong and bigoted, but I think that is human nature in every part of the world.
speculawyer
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Yeah, that is pretty dubious and leads people misleading conclusions. People will see 'latinos' and assume some far-left organization but many of the events were Omega-7 who are anti-Castro people. And no longer exist.
And many of the 'leftist' stuff is from animal rights and extreme eco-groups that do tree-spiking, vandalism, and arson . . . certainly criminal but would be better classified as sabotage and not terrorism since they are trying to destroy property and trying not to harm people. Not a single person is killed or even injured in that entire long list of alleged animal rights and extreme eco-groups 'terrorist' attacks. Criminal yes . . . terrorism, not in my opinion.
shinobi602
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Umm, disgusted with what exactly? Did this thread in any way diminish or belittle the fact that human beings lost their lives?
speculawyer
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Sure . . . and NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS KILLED OR EVEN INJURED in all of those animal rights groups and eco-groups crimes.
If you analyze that list by deaths and injuries, the islamist come off really bad. Total back-fire on that. Instead of saying 'other people do terrorism' they should just admit that Islamists have killed and injured a lot of people and try to do something about it. I'm disgusted by that completely misleading piece that weighs 9/11 exactly the same as some green nut that puts a spike in a tree so it can't be cut down.
Joel Was Right
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Agreed
I feel it's trying to shift the focus from the families of the injured and the dead. Two days after those people were killed is too soon basically.
Messofanego
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Wow, already.
The second one has actually been one of my nightmares, holy crap and that actually happened
The sad thing is that this is the least amount of satire i've seen them put into an article recently.
Messofanego
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I have heard of it before, I was just saying it's a damn cool name. Do I need to add a paragraph break to make separate points? And us as a bunch of Muslim friends, obviously we know about Chechnya, we just wanted to check out what other countries surrounded it. Maybe you took my comment that you quoted the wrong way?
shinobi602
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Come on...I think you're really leaping to conclusions here. I feel this is a pretty relevant issue given the situation, and I doubt it was the article's intent or this topic's to divert away from the loss of life.
The victims have been mourned and/or are currently being mourned. There's no set time limit that "ok, wait a week before discussing other issues regarding this". I don't think disrespect is anyone's intent here.
Lol wat.
He said he don't trust people with crazy beards. Nothing about people with beards being muslim.
wat
How is it trying to shift the focus from those families? The fact that you even think that shows your inability to put yourself in other people's shoes.
The fact of the matter is that hate crime is very much a real concern.
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